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Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak
The Joe Walker Podcast
Symbol Manipulation in Mathematica by Stephen Wolfram
Good tools for thought mostly arise as a byproduct of actually doing original work on some other serious problem. So one really classic lovely example is Mathematica by Stephen Wolfram. He was working on a bunch of very difficult original research in mathematics and studying these kind of cellular automata and symbolic systems. And he needed an environment to help him do this kind of symbol manipulation that he was doing to run these simulations.
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